Process Automation Software Engineer - Royston
Full-time position within the Process Automation team in Royston (Hertfordshire). Hybrid working available. The team consists of 13 professionals.
Required: Right to work in the UK.
Responsibilities
- Build, architect, and implement modern web components (TypeScript/React) focusing on performance, accessibility, and maintainability.
- Produce clear design documentation (e.g., ADRs, UML) to align implementation with intent.
- Collaborate and partner with Product Management and domain experts to shape requirements into small, testable increments.
- Participate in design and code reviews; mentor engineers on best practices.
- Write clean, testable code with unit, integration, and UI/component tests (e.g.: Jest/React Testing Library).
- Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across the team.
- Work within appropriate quality and compliance practices for the domain.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, build reliability, and automated test coverage.
- Help streamline release processes to reduce lead time and increase deployment confidence.
Qualifications
- Professional software development experience delivering production systems.
- Strong modern web experience: TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML/CSS; React preferred.
- Practical experience with automated testing, version control (Git), code reviews, and CI/CD.
- Ability to turn product requirements into clear designs and incremental deliveries.
- Collaborative communication skills and a continuous improvement mindset.
Nice to Have
- Solid C#/.NET skills including object oriented design and asynchronous programming.
- React ecosystem expertise (state management, component libraries, accessibility).
- WPF/XAML experience and desktop to web integration patterns.
- API design and implementation (REST/GraphQL), versioning, and security basics.
- Data visualization, performance tuning, and profiling (front end and/or .NET).
- DevOps exposure (pipelines, build tooling, artifact management, infrastructure as code).
- Experience in regulated or quality focused environments (e.g., GxP, ISO).
Benefits
- 37.5 hour working week.
- 25 days annual leave plus public holidays.
- Annual option to buy, sell or carry over annual leave.
- Free parking on site.
- Free hot and cold drinks.
- Private medical, dental, group life, and travel insurance.
- Health assessment service.
- Salary sacrifice options: Cycle to Work Scheme, planning ahead for your future, group personal pension plan, group income protection, will writing service.
- Competitive benefits package including health & wellbeing.
About Sartorius
Sartorius is a global life science company helping accelerate the development of therapeutics and bioprocessing solutions. It is listed on the German TecDAX and employs a diverse, international workforce.